Experts report the state of the art in the study of global climate change using remote sensing techniques. Topics covered include the principles of remote sensing, the management of data, data requirements in climatology, the principles of modelling, the input of data into models, and the application of remote sensing to the atmosphere, ice and snow, seas and land.
The book is highly topical given the current great public and scientific awareness of possible man-made changes to the climate. It is essential reading for anyone new to the field, and invaluable as a reference work to those already working in it.

Inhalt
Climate ChangeThe Background.- Remote Sensing, Systems and Data.- Satellite Observations in Global Ecology.- Satellite Data Archiving, Retrieval and Distribution.- Special Sensor Microwave/Image(SSM/I): Instrument, Data Analysis and Applications.- Basis and Structure of Climate Models.- The Use of Satellite Data in Numerical Weather Prediction.- Remote Sensing Input to Climatological Datasets.- The Microwave Limb Sounder and Error Reduction: Is What You See What You Get?.- Atmospheric Trace Gases and Aerosols.- Atmospheric Ozone Concentration Measurements.- Clouds, Cloud Observations and Cloud Feedbacks.- A Technique for Remote Sensing the Atmospheric Temperature and Pressure, Based on FabryPerot Interferometry of Rotational Raman Scattering Spectrum.- Remote Sensing of Snow and Ice and Its Relevance to Climate Change Processes.- The Study of Antarctica Using the ERS-1 Radar Altimeter.- The NASA Space Shuttle Earth Observations Database for Global Change Science.- Land Surface Energy Budget.- Potential of Remote Sensing in the Thermal Band for Global Change.- Comparison Between Albedo Derived from Satellite with Different Calibration Coefficients.- Some Notes on the Oceanic Aspect of the Remote Sensing and Global Climate Change Issue.- Remote Sensing Applications to Environmental Monitoring of the Coastal Zone.- Marine Surveillance and Information System.- The State of the Problem of Ecological Monitoring in the City of St Petersburg and Its Region.- A Second-Order Two-Scale Model for Rough Surface Scattering with Applications to Scatterometry.- Politics and Climate Change.- Participants.